GPD Most Popular Posts of 2016

Well hello hello and happy (almost) New Year! As 2016 winds down and I recover from my 3 straight days of Christmas parties, I thought I’d take a look at my stats and do a little recap of the most popular posts on this blog for 2016. To be clear, these are posts that were written during the year 2016 and the traffic is for 2016. I lumped some series together because otherwise it got a little too confusing, so technically a few 2015 posts snuck in here. I hope you’ll forgive me. And links are included, in case you want to catch up on something you missed.

How Do They Call Elections So Early?A simple question sent to me by a family member on Facebook quickly became my most popular post of the year. Got posted by someone on Twitter with the caveat “Trigger Warning: Math”, which is definitely my favorite intro ever.

Immigration, Poverty, and GumballsAnother response to a reader question “hey what do you think of this video?” that turned in to a meta-rant about mathematical demonstrations that distract from the real issues being addressed. This post briefly ended up on Roy Beck’s Wikipedia page as “notable criticism” of his video, but he still never returned my email. Bummer.

Intro to Internet Science (series) While technically this series started in 2015, the bulk of it (Parts 3-10) were posted in 2016 so I’m letting it make the list. This got a boost from a few teachers assigning it to their classes, which was pretty awesome.